Rainbow's end was a recent Hugo best novel that used augmented reality as a very big plot point. Basically content lenses with micro body movements for input was the new norm. I particularly liked that one of the most popular reality overlays was a discworld based mythology. Good book, worthy of the Hugo. I could see contacts being able to do this, leave the brain surgery out of this!.
Their soon doesn't usually include timelines. Take android, lack of Unlimited bluetooth discovery is my pet peeve, it's been an open issue for years. 3.0 came out and it was posted on the buglist 'it's fixed, stop complaining' but it hasn't been implemented. So it went from 'soon it'll be fixed' to 'soon it'll be put in', timeline still unknown.
Google would fall under the safeharbor rules like ISPs and other hosting providers. Since you have to explicitly share any auto-uploaded photo there shouldn't be any 'oops' moments. It's almost like Google thought things through...
A recent story had news about gene therapy being used to cure 2 people of leukemia. The article described how they used an version of HIV to target the right blood cells. Now this article talks about curing HIV after having leukemia - it's a vicious circle!
So we should continue to have an underlying hidden food tax? Why should farmers be special with handouts. If they can't do it profitable, get out of the business. We already import food from around the world that can do it cheaper. Altho farmers COULD do it profitable if they weren't competing against corporatism.
I come from a farm area and the farmers here have enough legit complaints about government and don't get the handouts. Subsidies really do go to the big farmers with lobbyist friends. What I hear them complain about are silly regulations. A new food safety bill was passed which requires excessive paperwork and logging. Every vehicle on their farm must be logged (What terrorists are going to be putting something in an apple now? Really?) Fine, I'm sure Mr. Bad Guy is going to drive in the orchard past the front office, not oh - stop by the side of any other road near the open air orchard like everyone else does to borrow apples. How about the law that every operator of farm machinery must have a C license. Right, the family tradition of working on the farm during the summer comes to an end because the kid needs a commercial license - that's asinine. Oh and not just on roadways, on your own damn property! Or when the banking industry got hammered they stopped lines of credit for farm distributors. Wall street got bailed out but we had tons of apples unharvested because the distributors had no money to pay farmers for the product. Now if you were a big enough biz you could get the money, but not the co-ops. Hard on the small guys again. With all these regulations and anti-competitive agribusiness getting those subsidies the small family farmers can't survive. If we get rid of the advantages and wasteful regulations the small family farmer could become a reality again. That would help have a safe food supply without extra taxes on everyone.
I'm actually surprised there is no android/iphone app that lets you put your phone on the dash and it snaps license plates as you drive. Why should big brother be in the hands of big brother? Let's crowdsource it and figure out where all federal plates, state plates, police, etc are on a regular basis. Altho it would be a stalker's dream app but if the feds are watching us, let's watch back.
I couldn't agree more. When the Gov stopped the senior citizen bus trips to Canada for pharmacy refills that saved them bundles you know it was all about the almighty dollar of Big Pharma. In almost every other industry the Internet has saved people money by finding the best reseller, except those with strong gov't lobbying efforts.
actually I was surprised it won. I liked the trilogy, fun read and could make a great HBO series ALA game of thrones, But... It was well, a thin book and compared to previous winners it just didn't seem like a contender compared to an Uplift War, Mars trilogy, etc.
How could TARP lose money? The fed gave money to the banks at near 0%, which then bought treasuries that were guaranteed to return more than the money they got. Being paid to lend money to the govt. Give me some of that action! Oh wait I'm not one of the select friends in high places.
However TARP was a drop in the bucket. The GAO audit of the fed showed 16 trillion was loaned out to financial institutions around the world. 16 trillion makes 750 billion look small potatoes.
Morgan Stanly chairman's wife + friend got 220 Mil which was used to purchase student loans and commercial mortgages. The loans were set up so that Christy and Susan would keep 100 percent of any gains on the deals, while the Fed and the Treasury (read: the taxpayer) would eat 90 percent of the losses.
$2 trillion in loans each to Citigroup and Morgan Stanley
It's this sort of using connections to make a ton of money, blatantly, that gets people pissed. This is the 1% that's benefiting from all of this mess. No different than GE paying 0 in taxes because they can afford 1000 lawyers, while the typical small business can't bounce money around the world and have enough lawyers to do it. When the game becomes so obviously stacked against the other players it's time for some changes.
I don't understand how people think 'news for nerds' shouldn't include bitcoin. Digital crypto currency is about as nerdy as you can get. Maybe it should have been called iBitcoin to have been more catchy
It'd be far more fun to put these on political figure's cars. We wouldn't have to wait for love children to show up 10 years later, or getting caught in rubbing against someone's foot in a bathroom, we could just analyze their driving habits to see if they're going to a red light district or a mistress' house.
Or from a personal point of view - In my local township there's a recall effort underway because the township switched ambulance services. Since the new company took over there are documented cases of them not being in our area when the contract states they should be. The local township doesn't listen to complaints and it's a few months until the recall election. Putting a GPS on every ambulance in their service and having concrete proof of their coverage lapses would great, it'd allow a forced immediate cancellation of the contract so we could go back to who the citizens want. So if this passes I'm all for buying the cheap lowjack solutions out there and slapping them on some vehicles, there are alternatives that cost far less than the 1 grand units the feds use. Of course I won't be surprised to see a ruling that says the gov't can do things the private citizens can't...
I miss copyleft and all the 'this is an illegal circumvention device' tshirts. I could do with a few new ones. When a tshirt place gets shut down because of the DMCA you know it's gone too far.
See a person you'd like to get to know better? Snap a pic, run through the service, and find their details.
Possibly more fun and profitable uses of matching random faces to names would be jury tampering, background checks for employees, finding Ex's of whomever you're dating, blackmailing married men leaving a strip club or adult book store, finding where the TSA agent who just groped you lives...
Instead of recounting your fingers and toes, perhaps you could check paypal's fee schedule and see that for anything under $3000 a month merchant fees are 2.9% + 30 cents. In an ISP setting I only had a few % of clients pay with paypal, never paid less than that percentage. So yes, 3%
I would expect dwolla has had a surge in use recently now that most of the bitcoin exchanges allow dwolla transfers. I think they have a good system, a flat 25 cent transaction fee isn't bad. As a merchant I dislike using credit cards at smaller shops since they have to eat the 3%. Paypal fees are even higher than CC companies, I wouldn't use them even if I trusted paypal.
I am surprised at the cynicism about Bitcoins. A P2P network that has all transactions signed with crypto is very cool. It's the plot point of Crytonomicon made real, without the hidden nazi gold behind it. Well and no central company making a fortune with the digital currency, but the concept is about as techy as you can be. For the average user the interface is still a bit overly techy. If it gets to the convenience of paypal without the 3% fees it could start to shake things up.
Raging storms on earth, the reappearance of the Jupiter Southern Equatorial belt with more storms than normal and now Saturn. Seriously, what are we missing?
The Rapture must start at the outer planets and work its way inward
13 people killed at the Fort Hood shooting, Plane crash into a Texas IRS office, underwear bomber, time square car bomb, a variety of Pipe Bombs at mosques, bridges, park benches, recruiting centers, 1 killed at the Little Rock recruiting center attack, 2 dead at the Knoxville Unitarian Universalist church shooting, suicide bomber in Dalton, Georgia, a few dead at the Wells Fargo Bombing in Oregon, and the List goes on.
And we should all raise a huge stink about it violating our rights. A highlight of the controversies. Using the Patroit Act to gather one million financial, credit, employment, and in some cases, health records from customers, or indefinite detainment.
You're right about ICQ, there's a reason AOL bought it for 400 million because AIM must have sucked. I remember getting ICQ after reading the mini blurb on the one page internet page Newsweek used to have. The 'net was still novel enough to make a small passing note using one whole page. I still chat on ICQ with pidgin to some friends, it's quick and encrypted with plugins. But.. I never used AIM. And I'm an American, I think the article author must have missed the boat about the early chat programs. Although I continue to chat with people on a MUD, this graphical fad will go away any day now.
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Great now someone's going to market extenze candy bars. They'll only be available in King Size obviously.
Rainbow's end was a recent Hugo best novel that used augmented reality as a very big plot point. Basically content lenses with micro body movements for input was the new norm. I particularly liked that one of the most popular reality overlays was a discworld based mythology. Good book, worthy of the Hugo. I could see contacts being able to do this, leave the brain surgery out of this!.
Their soon doesn't usually include timelines. Take android, lack of Unlimited bluetooth discovery is my pet peeve, it's been an open issue for years. 3.0 came out and it was posted on the buglist 'it's fixed, stop complaining' but it hasn't been implemented. So it went from 'soon it'll be fixed' to 'soon it'll be put in', timeline still unknown.
Google would fall under the safeharbor rules like ISPs and other hosting providers. Since you have to explicitly share any auto-uploaded photo there shouldn't be any 'oops' moments. It's almost like Google thought things through...
A recent story had news about gene therapy being used to cure 2 people of leukemia. The article described how they used an version of HIV to target the right blood cells. Now this article talks about curing HIV after having leukemia - it's a vicious circle!
So we should continue to have an underlying hidden food tax? Why should farmers be special with handouts. If they can't do it profitable, get out of the business. We already import food from around the world that can do it cheaper. Altho farmers COULD do it profitable if they weren't competing against corporatism.
I come from a farm area and the farmers here have enough legit complaints about government and don't get the handouts. Subsidies really do go to the big farmers with lobbyist friends. What I hear them complain about are silly regulations. A new food safety bill was passed which requires excessive paperwork and logging. Every vehicle on their farm must be logged (What terrorists are going to be putting something in an apple now? Really?) Fine, I'm sure Mr. Bad Guy is going to drive in the orchard past the front office, not oh - stop by the side of any other road near the open air orchard like everyone else does to borrow apples. How about the law that every operator of farm machinery must have a C license. Right, the family tradition of working on the farm during the summer comes to an end because the kid needs a commercial license - that's asinine. Oh and not just on roadways, on your own damn property! Or when the banking industry got hammered they stopped lines of credit for farm distributors. Wall street got bailed out but we had tons of apples unharvested because the distributors had no money to pay farmers for the product. Now if you were a big enough biz you could get the money, but not the co-ops. Hard on the small guys again. With all these regulations and anti-competitive agribusiness getting those subsidies the small family farmers can't survive. If we get rid of the advantages and wasteful regulations the small family farmer could become a reality again. That would help have a safe food supply without extra taxes on everyone.
Dubai is allowing a treatment in their country that does that. http://www.arabianbusiness.com/new-ovarian-cancer-treatment-approved-in-dubai-403287.html My mother has been fighting ovarian for 3 years and if it didn't cost a few hundred thousand for this treatment they'd have another client.
I'm actually surprised there is no android/iphone app that lets you put your phone on the dash and it snaps license plates as you drive. Why should big brother be in the hands of big brother? Let's crowdsource it and figure out where all federal plates, state plates, police, etc are on a regular basis. Altho it would be a stalker's dream app but if the feds are watching us, let's watch back.
How long before we can submit escort services as medical expenses?
I couldn't agree more. When the Gov stopped the senior citizen bus trips to Canada for pharmacy refills that saved them bundles you know it was all about the almighty dollar of Big Pharma. In almost every other industry the Internet has saved people money by finding the best reseller, except those with strong gov't lobbying efforts.
actually I was surprised it won. I liked the trilogy, fun read and could make a great HBO series ALA game of thrones, But... It was well, a thin book and compared to previous winners it just didn't seem like a contender compared to an Uplift War, Mars trilogy, etc.
You read old man's war too?
How could TARP lose money? The fed gave money to the banks at near 0%, which then bought treasuries that were guaranteed to return more than the money they got. Being paid to lend money to the govt. Give me some of that action! Oh wait I'm not one of the select friends in high places.
However TARP was a drop in the bucket. The GAO audit of the fed showed 16 trillion was loaned out to financial institutions around the world. 16 trillion makes 750 billion look small potatoes.
Rolling Stone article describing some of this. My favorite highlights
It's this sort of using connections to make a ton of money, blatantly, that gets people pissed. This is the 1% that's benefiting from all of this mess. No different than GE paying 0 in taxes because they can afford 1000 lawyers, while the typical small business can't bounce money around the world and have enough lawyers to do it. When the game becomes so obviously stacked against the other players it's time for some changes.
I don't understand how people think 'news for nerds' shouldn't include bitcoin. Digital crypto currency is about as nerdy as you can get. Maybe it should have been called iBitcoin to have been more catchy
It'd be far more fun to put these on political figure's cars. We wouldn't have to wait for love children to show up 10 years later, or getting caught in rubbing against someone's foot in a bathroom, we could just analyze their driving habits to see if they're going to a red light district or a mistress' house.
Or from a personal point of view - In my local township there's a recall effort underway because the township switched ambulance services. Since the new company took over there are documented cases of them not being in our area when the contract states they should be. The local township doesn't listen to complaints and it's a few months until the recall election. Putting a GPS on every ambulance in their service and having concrete proof of their coverage lapses would great, it'd allow a forced immediate cancellation of the contract so we could go back to who the citizens want. So if this passes I'm all for buying the cheap lowjack solutions out there and slapping them on some vehicles, there are alternatives that cost far less than the 1 grand units the feds use. Of course I won't be surprised to see a ruling that says the gov't can do things the private citizens can't...
Grand Theft Street View could be fun. Although with craigslist no longer having the adult section how are we going to find hookers for health?
There was a recent call for the Treasury to audit the gold storage at Ft Knox. The treasury doesn't want to go along with the request.
I miss copyleft and all the 'this is an illegal circumvention device' tshirts. I could do with a few new ones. When a tshirt place gets shut down because of the DMCA you know it's gone too far.
See a person you'd like to get to know better? Snap a pic, run through the service, and find their details.
Possibly more fun and profitable uses of matching random faces to names would be jury tampering, background checks for employees, finding Ex's of whomever you're dating, blackmailing married men leaving a strip club or adult book store, finding where the TSA agent who just groped you lives...
Instead of recounting your fingers and toes, perhaps you could check paypal's fee schedule and see that for anything under $3000 a month merchant fees are 2.9% + 30 cents. In an ISP setting I only had a few % of clients pay with paypal, never paid less than that percentage. So yes, 3%
I would expect dwolla has had a surge in use recently now that most of the bitcoin exchanges allow dwolla transfers. I think they have a good system, a flat 25 cent transaction fee isn't bad. As a merchant I dislike using credit cards at smaller shops since they have to eat the 3%. Paypal fees are even higher than CC companies, I wouldn't use them even if I trusted paypal.
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So they turned off their internet connection?
I am surprised at the cynicism about Bitcoins. A P2P network that has all transactions signed with crypto is very cool. It's the plot point of Crytonomicon made real, without the hidden nazi gold behind it. Well and no central company making a fortune with the digital currency, but the concept is about as techy as you can be. For the average user the interface is still a bit overly techy. If it gets to the convenience of paypal without the 3% fees it could start to shake things up.
Raging storms on earth, the reappearance of the Jupiter Southern Equatorial belt with more storms than normal and now Saturn. Seriously, what are we missing?
The Rapture must start at the outer planets and work its way inward
13 people killed at the Fort Hood shooting, Plane crash into a Texas IRS office, underwear bomber, time square car bomb, a variety of Pipe Bombs at mosques, bridges, park benches, recruiting centers, 1 killed at the Little Rock recruiting center attack, 2 dead at the Knoxville Unitarian Universalist church shooting, suicide bomber in Dalton, Georgia, a few dead at the Wells Fargo Bombing in Oregon, and the List goes on.
And we should all raise a huge stink about it violating our rights. A highlight of the controversies. Using the Patroit Act to gather one million financial, credit, employment, and in some cases, health records from customers, or indefinite detainment.
You're right about ICQ, there's a reason AOL bought it for 400 million because AIM must have sucked. I remember getting ICQ after reading the mini blurb on the one page internet page Newsweek used to have. The 'net was still novel enough to make a small passing note using one whole page. I still chat on ICQ with pidgin to some friends, it's quick and encrypted with plugins. But.. I never used AIM. And I'm an American, I think the article author must have missed the boat about the early chat programs. Although I continue to chat with people on a MUD, this graphical fad will go away any day now.